Anna Jameson

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not read more

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just read more

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.